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Life On and Off an Acreage

In-sights into moving from an Acreage back to Town, plus a few things I find of interest.

Two things that horses are scared about:

1. Things that move

2. Things that don't move

October 29, 2011

Newest Acquisitions to the Acreage

This is what I like about living on an Acreage. You never know what the morning brings. I went out on the deck with my grand daughter and found these three about 100 yards from the house. The cow moose was looking very good and so were her twin calves of this year.

The calves sure grew quickly. Normally we don't see them up this way until January. For some reason they were early this year. Boots and Brooklyn both ignored them.

The two calves were bedded down in this hollow when I first saw them. I don't know where the cow was, but I suspect that she was still laying down.

Moose are rather neat things to have around, but not if you are a horse. All three horses were on high alert, prancing and blowing their displeasure.

All in all, though, not a bad way to start out the day!

I apologize for the slightly out of focus pictures, but at first light, the only steady rest was the top of a fence post. They turned out not too bad for 1/8 of a second shutter speed.

Wow, what an awesome sight!! I nearly clobbered a big buck going to work the other day - much better to view them from the kitchen window than the windshield! Can't imagine what a moose would do to my little car *shudder*. but then again, they don't bolt across the road, do they?

Thanks, everybody! To give you some idea of the size, the barbed wire top strand is 4 feet high. That puts the calves about 5 feet high at the shoulder and the cow about 6 feet+. A cow will go about 1100 pounds and the calves at this time about 800. The cow would be comparable to a medium size horse.

For information sake, they do run across the road and at night the first thing you see are the white legs. By that time it is generally too late to brake. Several people are killed each year by hitting a moose. In a small car, the hood generally goes under the belly, and the body through the windshield. Anybody in the front seat ends up in the back seat with the moose on top of them. Not a good scenario.